{"id":864,"date":"2010-09-28T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=864"},"modified":"2010-09-30T19:53:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T02:53:02","slug":"doorbells-numbers-mailboxes-and-carpets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2010\/09\/28\/doorbells-numbers-mailboxes-and-carpets\/","title":{"rendered":"Doorbells, Numbers, Mailboxes, and Carpets"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I get ready to post the final costs for the project, I have two entries to sneak in first: this one covering several items and another one covering decorative lighting.<\/p>\n

The doorbell<\/h3>\n

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For the incredibly affordable sum of $50, we got ourselves a sexy Spore True doorbell<\/a>, and I have to say, it is money. Not only does it look great but people actually love pressing it. One pizza guy even said he’s never had the urge to press a doorbell a second time until he pressed this one. Not that you should be worried about what pizza delivery people think about your doorbell, but I’m just sayin’…<\/p>\n

House numbers<\/h3>\n

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Seeing as Build<\/a> designed the house to evoke a midcentury esthetic, we figured we should get house numbers set in a typeface that was inspired by that era. Neutraface<\/a> was the obvious choice, and conveniently, Design Within Reach sells house numbers set in this face.<\/p>\n

The mailbox<\/h3>\n

Although brands like Blomus make great, modern mailboxes, $320 is just a ridiculous sum to pay for a container that I wish I never had to use. Happily, I found this little jobbie at Chiasso<\/a> for $78 instead. It does the job just fine, but I still look forward to the day when I can turn off my mail service entirely<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Carpeting<\/h3>\n

Carpeting just isn’t a sexy subject these days, but almost every house has at least a little of it, and ours is no exception. We chose high quality berber carpeting for the upstairs bedrooms and cheaper berber for the basement. We got our carpeting from Decor Carpet One<\/a> of Bellevue and it turned out great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I get ready to post the final costs for the project, I have two entries to sneak in first: this one covering several items and another one covering decorative lighting. The doorbell For the incredibly affordable sum of $50, we got ourselves a sexy Spore True doorbell, and I have to say, it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,27,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}